An arachnologist from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered the world’s first eyeless huntsman spider.
A very special...
Archaeologists have discovered that people living 700 to 900 years ago in Cahokia, a massive pre-Columbian settlement near the confluence of the Missouri...
Astronomers led by Dr Stella Kafka of the Carnegie Institution for Science have reported the discovery of a star system, prior to explosion, which will...
ESA’s Mars Express has observed the southern part of a 440-km wide crater, informally named Ladon basin.
The image shows the interconnected craters Sigli...
Giant ice avalanches discovered on Saturn’s moon Iapetus provide clue to extreme slippage elsewhere in the Solar System.
When the rimwall of Iapetus’s...
An international team of archaeologists has unearthed a beautiful and colossal human sculpture at the Tayinat Archaeological Project excavation site in...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered two ancient species of South American rodents, including the oldest chinchilla, a discovery that...
After sequencing the complete genome of Leishmania donovani, a parasite causing one of the most important tropical diseases after malaria, a team of scientists...
An international consortium of plant scientists has completed the first sequencing of the banana genome.
Bananas (Steve Hopson / www.stevehopson.com)
The...
A network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at nano and micro level – this is the lightest material in the world.
Aerographite...
Paleoanthropologists at the Wits Institute for Human Evolution in Johannesburg, South Africa, have announced the discovery of a large rock containing significant...
An international team of researchers has found that Native American populations arose from at least three migrations, with the majority descended entirely...
Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected a fifth and tiniest moon yet orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto.
This image, taken by...
British archaeologists and engineers have collaborated to examine buried Roman coins using the latest X-ray imaging technology.
Computer rendered image...
An international group of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood.
Astronomers...
Archaeologists using uranium-series dating technique have found that a reindeer engraved on the wall of a cave in South Wales dates from about 14,505 years...
